Singled Out for Applause

November 21, 2005 at 12:17 PM

Suppose you practiced Borodine's Second Symphony, Beethoven's Seventh & First, and Strauss' Trisch Trasch Polka (such an unfortunate name) like heck, cause, well...you want to be a professional, so you try to start acting like a professional.
Then at orchestra rehearsal, no one else practiced. You're irritated, cause the conductor is peeved with everyone, the music doesn't sound good, and heck, why DID you want to be in orchestra anyways?
Then your conductor says "There is one person in this orchestra who rpacticed the music and that is Natasha. Every time I look at her she is right with me. She is setting new levels of expectations in this orchestra."
And you turn bright red and try to hide behind your music stand, but she keeps making similar comments throughout the entire rehearsal, pausing to make you play an excerpt from the piece to show the first stand how it's done.
I'm no longer worried about getting into honors orchestra. She even said "It's people like this that will make it into the honors orchestra." and I was like "Aw shucks".
I'm glad she noticed though. I get easily convinced from my own player that I'm not a good violinist, so when someone that picky says something like that, I remember that violin is hard, and I'm actually doing okay.
It's a very refreshing experience.
Albeit embaressing (I turn red VERY easily)

From Carley Anderson
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 1:23 PM

Wow, wow, wow! That's terrific. BRAVO!

From Barry Berman
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 2:18 PM

congrats, you are an inspiration to us all!

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 6:46 PM

Well thanks guys, I'm really flattered. :-)

From Sydney Menees
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 11:22 PM

Yeah, it makes you sure that your practice doesn't go unnoticed.

This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments.